The director of Rai: “Intimidation of journalists? They’re just rumors”. And on the strike: “Not joining is the right”

General director Giampaolo Rossi excludes that there was "anti-union behavior" on Rai's part regarding the strike on May 6th. And he reports that some journalists who did not join the protest have received "death threats" on social media

ROME – “I cannot accept the idea that at the moment Rai is being portrayed as a place of intimidation towards journalists, if that were the case there would have been 99% support for the strike on the part of journalistsIt’s not like that, they’re rumors but it’s not the truth“. The general corporate director of Rai, Giampaolo Rossi, said this yesterday evening during the hearing in the Rai Parliamentary Supervisory Commission.

“NO ANTI-TRADE UNION BEHAVIOR, NOT TO STRIKE IS THE RIGHT”

“There was no anti-union behavior on the part of the company, but the spontaneous presence in the workplace by numerous journalists which made it possible to activate the editorial processes and air the news”. The corporate general director of Rai, Giampaolo Rossi, said this during the hearing in the RAI parliamentary supervisory commission.

“A legitimate presence, as also foreseen by a historic and unequivocal ruling of the Constitutional Court, which in ’69 equated the right to strike with the right not to do so”, underlined Rossi. The strike “found support from 56% of the total number of journalists, 71% if we calculate the number of staff expected to work during the day. Probably if support had been higher there would not have been the means to be able to broadcast the news, but participation in the strike was not such as to prevent some directors from being able to broadcast the most important editions”. freedom and pluralism, having guaranteed the right to strike and also, in discontinuity with the past, having guaranteed citizens the information required by the public service”.

“DEATH THREATS TO WOMEN JOURNALISTS WHO WORKED DURING THE STRIKE”< /strong>